Authors you have read everthing by

[Dubversion]

John Kennedy Toole, Dave Eggers, Toby Litt (for some reason ), Douglas Coupland.. TC Boyle very shortly.

I'm not a completist with authors the way I am with music, say, or films, but there are authors of whom I've read lots / most but who have written too bloody much - Hardy, Self, Vonnegut, Bukowski, people like that

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

I've only read the heartbreaking work of staggering genius by eggers, but i loved that

 

[Pingu]

dunno if i have read everything by the following but these are authors whose books mainly fill my shelves

Larry Niven
Michael Morcock
Terry Pratchett
Frederick Forsyth
Billy Shakespere
Tolkein

 

[Jografer]

David (& Leigh) Eddings

 

[ringo]

Cormac McCarthy

 

[phildwyer]

Shouldn't this thread be called "authors by whom you have read everything?"

 

[Dirty Martini]

Why?

 

[phildwyer]

Why?

Because bad grammar is something up with which we should not have to put.

 

[Sunspots]

Cormac McCarthy

Have you read The Road yet?

I've not read it, but it sounds like it could be fucking awesome.*

*Apologies for the lazy duuuude-like description.

 

[girasol]

Anyone ever heard of Monteiro Lobato? A great Brazilian writer.

I read all his books for children (there were 17) and some of his books for adults. I read a lot of brazilian authors when I was growing up.

Another writer I read lots of (because he's one of the most well regarded writers over there) was Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, who it turns out used to translate William Shakespeare's books to Portuguese.

So I missed out on all the stuff most of you urbanites read while you were growing up

Oh, I read lots and lots of Cliver Barker and Isaac Asimov too.

 

[Dirty Martini]

The ones who wrote very little, like Emily Bronte and Nathaniel West, a few others like that. If I like a writer a lot, I tend to save them up. I think Raymond Chandler, Derek Raymond and AM Homes might fall in the near future though.

 

[Flavour]

socrates

 

[Cheesypoof]

john irving, anthony giddens, stephen king

john king, roald dahl, jack kerouac

 

[Donna Ferentes]

socrates

Yes, but so has everybody else.

 

[poster342002]

Yes, but so has everybody else.

I haven't.

 

[Grandma Death]

Every book bar two of Stephen King and everybook bar one of Irvine Welsh.

 

[gentlegreen]

I read a book once - several times - apart from the difficult bit in the middle.

Every book in fact that Robert M Pirsig ever wrote - except his other book - which was crap - only read the first chapter.

 

[Fledgling]

i've read just about everything by albert camus. except the obscure shite which is difficult to find

I keep starting Camus works but just realised I've only finished the Outsider, Plague and the First Man (if it's possible to finish the latter). But I've read most of the The Fall, Exile and the Kindom and the Rebel. Only have the Myth of Sisyphus and the plays to read which I'd like to, although I've now decided to read 40 books be different authors so I've a few books to read before I return to Camus.

With the exception of some of the letters, essays and journalism I've read most of Orwell's work plus a couple of biogs. Steinbeck too, apart from a couple of pieces.

I think Orwell, Camus and Kafka are the authors I'd most likely read everything of, but then is it possible to read everything by one person?

 

[marty21]

ben richards.

i've read all of his

loved his one about the housing officer

i think i've done all ian rankin's books (reading his latest at the mo)
jay mcinerney
christoper fowler

 

[DotCommunist]

David (& Leigh) Eddings

I'm sorry but I just think the Sparhawk books are total crap.

 

[kyser_soze]

Frank Herbert
Iain Banks (and 'm')
Doug Adams
William Gibson
Alasiair Reynolds
Thomas Paine
Graham Swift
Jonathan Swift
Shakespeare
Douglas Coupland
Bret Easton Ellis
JRR Tolkein
Willam Golding

 

[irishshapes]

Kathy Reichs
Lee Child
Louis de Berniere
Enid Blyton
Harlan Coben
Douglas Adams
Jonathan Kellerman
Patrica Scanlon (uuntil she went mental and claimed she had figured out who the 'real' ripper was)
robert crais

and i'm sure others whom i can't remember, because if i like someone i buy all their books!

p.s. and the horse jockey who turned to writing books (he has about 20 or so) and for the life of me i can't think of his name, and i have even tried googling and i'm failing

 

[chooch]

p.s. and the horse jockey who turned to writing books (he has about 20 or so) and for the life of me i can't think of his name, and i have even tried googling and i'm failing

Dick Francis?

 

[irishshapes]

Dick Francis?

thats the one

 

[Donna Ferentes]

I haven't.

Yes you have.

 

[Orang Utan]

I ain't ready ANY Greek literature apart from extracts found in sociology textbooks of Socrates and Plato and some other venerable bubbles.

 

[Donna Ferentes]

So what Socrates have you read?

 

[goldenecitrone]

Harper Lee
Robert Pirsig
Martin Amis

 

[onemonkey]

the pedant is pointing out that Plato wrote all the stuff about Socrates..

by the same token we have all read everything that God ever wrote.

 

[Donna Ferentes]

How's that pedantic?